With Resolve
Back from a much needed vacation and a realization that I misread my calendar, I return with one of those typical posts about arbitrary time periods and the things we say we will change in honor of the new one. Of course, these usually only last a few months (I made it all the way to October last year!) until we spiral into comfortable (or sometimes not-so-comfortable) patterns that we are so accustomed to.
So yes, I wish to change things this year. Many of my desired changes are probably much like yours: Smoke less, work out more, eat better, save more money, make more money, more time with my friends, more time with my family, create more free time and create more in general.
If you want to hear about all of that, I’d be happy to discuss those resolutions with you, but I’d rather let them unfold by way of the resolution that applies here. In a nutshell: Steady blogging, steady vlogging. I’ll be honest, the whole Consumatron project kinda fell apart at the end of last year. I could hide behind my busy work schedule and other excuses. They’d all be valid, but when it comes down to it, I just didn’t want it enough (boy, my high school gym teacher would be proud of that last statement).
Well, I still want it. This project keeps me on my toes and on my writing game. I also want weekends free, so you probably won’t be seeing much of me on the weekends.
During the week, the updates may not come every day, but they will hopefully be steadier. I hope your participation will become so as well. (More on that later).
Here’s to a steadier new year!
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Posted by consumatron on January 12th, 2008 filed in new year, resolutions, resolve
January 13th, 2008 at 2:58 am
I hear you on the “life-gets-in-the-way” thing. Just trying one vlog/week was difficult and I only managed 48 out of 52 (OK 49 if you’re really counting). So kudos to you for your efforts. Yes, you want it. But you don’t NEED it. You do need your job, clean clothes, food, etc…
I’ll be here watching (and participating when I can)
Cheers to a fruitful ‘08!
January 13th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
Glad to hear you’re still around, man. Yeah, it’s tough. Hell, I’ve been doing well to get one episode per month done recently. I’ll be here too, so do what you do.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
woot woot!
You’re the only “other shows” vlog I really watch.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
or read, as the case may be
January 14th, 2008 at 10:53 pm
Hey man, I’m going to assume you’ve discovered that the ORG is gone.
I’m also going to assume that you’ve not heard about the efforts of many Sports Racers to regroup and rebuild. (Though I’m pretty sure there’s a thread over in the zefrank.com forum.) If you’re interested, head on over to http://postORG.org and jump on in. The coder-types are working on building a new playground. The rest of us are working on being awesome. Hope to see you there.
Peace.